TABLE OF CONTENTS First published 2004
J M Gordon & K C Ng
Cambridge International Science Publishing
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About the Authors
Jeffrey M. Gordon
Prof. Gordon was born in 1949 in the USA. Currently, he holds the rank of professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), in the Department of Energy & Environmental Physics, Sede Boqer Campus, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Beersheva Campus. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1976.
Prof. Gordon has authored over 120 papers in international peer-reviewed journals in the areas of: the engineering and physics of cooling systems, finite-time thermodynamics, nonimaging optics, biomedical optics, and solar energy. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Solar Energy; editor of the International Solar Energy Society Background Paper Series, and former associate editor of the ASME J. of Solar Energy Eng., Progress in Photovoltaics and Advances in...
